Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) founder Abhijeet Dipke on Sunday alleged technical failures during the Bombay High Court’s clerk recruitment typing test, claiming that there was faulty equipment and non-functional keyboards that left candidates being declared failed within minutes of the exam beginning.
“I was told that a District Court judge was present inside; he should come out and give a written assurance that the exam will be re-conducted, and not on the same faulty computers used today. “Students just informed me that they had a High Court exam this morning. As soon as they sat down to take it, they discovered that for some, the mouse wasn’t working, and for others, the keyboard was faulty. “The Bombay High Court exam was scheduled at my centre, and it has already been conducted; the first session is over. All the keyboards at our centre are brand new. We have all the necessary facilities available here.
Things are moving a bit slowly due to a technical issue with printing, but it is just a minor problem that will be resolved. Within 10 minutes, the majority of the students were logged out, and subsequently, they were all declared failed.
It is a failure of the system and the government, which is unable to conduct online exams properly,” he said. Dipke said he has learnt that there was a District Court judge present at the venue during the exam and called on the Judge to give written assurance about a re-test on functioning equipment. Such a situation must not happen again; the students’ futures are at stake,” he said, adding, “I want the District Judge to come down here if he wishes to speak. As for the students who are creating a commotion, I would simply request them to remain calm,” he told reporters.
